Giles Coren reviews Chrysan, London EC2

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‘It was the sort of thing used for football in the Middle Ages: a package of leathery chicken flesh filled with rice’

There is apparently a restaurant in Tokyo with only seven seats, all at a
cherry wood counter onto which the sushi master plants each morsel
individually before you. This counter is planed down after each service so
that every meal is eaten off virgin wood. You pay $500 just to make a
reservation, which will be for a date three years in the future, when you
will pay again, something closer to $2,000 this time.

There is also said to be at least one eating place in the city that is
situated ten storeys below ground in a man-made Arcadian